Katie Holmes's résumé
just keeps getting longer. From TV star to Broadway actress, mom to model to
haircare guru, there isn’t much she hasn’t
tried.

And now she can add “makeup maven” to that ever-expanding list. For fall, the
actress expanded her role as the face of Bobbi Brown cosmetics to become a
collaborator on a compact and a brush set, called The Bobbi & Katie
Collection.

“Our objective was to do something that is very helpful to all women,” Holmes
told WWD. “You can put it on in the back of a cab, you can put
it on in your bathroom at home, you can put it on in the parking lot at your
child’s soccer game. It’s simple, but we like to have special things that make
us feel good, and I think that’s what this palette achieves.”

Comprised of eight eyeshadows, two Pot Rouges and a mini eye pencil (the
latter of which Brown credited to Holmes and called “genius”), the palette is
inspired by an old journal of Holmes’s and by her conversations with Brown.
“These are things that will perk you up. And I look to Bobbi for that, because
she’s an incredible makeup artist,” she said. “I’m always asking her, ‘What do I
do when I’ve slept four hours and I’m going to a meeting? What do I do so I
don’t look like I’m exhausted?’”

She might need even more of those tips in the upcoming months. She’s got
another Holmes & Yang show coming up at New York Fashion Week and is filming
two movies at the moment — not to mention toying with the idea of launching a
fragrance. “I’m interested [in perfume],” Holmes said. “We all need a little
help in smelling good, especially in the summer in New York City!”

Tell us: Are you excited to check out Holmes’s first foray into
makeup? Would you try her perfume?